The Neuropsychiatric Evaluation of the Closed Head Injury of Transient Type (CHIT)

Vernon M Neppe MD, PhD, FRCPC, FFPsych, MMed, DABPN, DPsM, DABFE, DABFM, DABPS, FACFE, MB, BCh, BA.
Director, Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute, Seattle, WA
Adj. Professor of Psychiatry , St Louis University, St Louis, MO
AND

Glenn T. Goodwin PhD
Neuropsychologist, Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute,, Seattle, WA

This article has been published (by consent of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute) in the following book:
Neppe VM and Goodwin GT.
The Neuropsychiatric Evaluation of the Closed Head Injury of Transient Type (CHIT).
Chapter 10.   Pp 149-208.
In Varney N, Roberts R.  Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
Mahweh, NJ: Erlbaum and Associates.  1999.

Table of Contents

Neuropsychiatry Controversies of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury  A Neuropsychiatric Classification of CHIT  Postconcussive Subsyndrome  Posttraumatic Subsyndrome  Focal Residual Brain Syndrome in CHIT  Mixed Subgroup of CHIT

The Time Based Neuropsychiatric Evaluation  Evaluation  Diagnostic Evaluation  Conclusions  References Table A Table B Table C Table D

See also Transient Closed Head Injury Management